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WorksheetsDeveloping listening & speaking skills
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is a communicative task?
an activity or exercise
an activity that has (a) an objective attainable only by the interaction among participants
an activity with a focus on meaning exchange
an activity that focuses on accuracy
Interpersonal communication is
spontaneous
two-way communication that is negotiated between and among speakers
one-way communication to an audience of listeners (or readers/viewers) in which the message usually cannot be clarified or negotiated.
centered around a meaningful context
Presentational communication is
spontaneous
two-way communication that is negotiated between and among speakers
one-way communication to an audience of listeners (or readers/viewers) in which the message usually cannot be clarified or negotiated.
centered around a meaningful context
Sketches and rehearsed roleplays are examples of
Presentational tasks
Interpersonal tasks
Speaking tasks
Listening tasks
Information gap and ranking activities are examples of
Presentational tasks
Interpersonal tasks
Speaking tasks
Listening tasks
Listening tasks can be challenging to teenagers because
There is the problem that confronts all students of English and that is the way that individual sounds change in connected speech (i.e. assimilated, elided and weak forms). This can mean that students simply turn off when listening to English being spoken as it seems too difficult to follow without a high level of concentration.
More and more teenagers have problems with short attention spans which makes the discipline of listening to reasonably extended discourse in English much more difficult.
The level of motivation of teenage students can vary enormously. Some teenagers are of course very keen to learn while others are in class because they are forced to be there, not because they want to be there.
A framework for listening skills lessons ...
includes three parts: pre-, while-, and post-listening stages
always integrates speaking tasks
can integrate other skills
includes adapted audio materials
Listening can be more engaging if teachers
ask students to bring prepared songs or any other listening material in English to the classroom
Use transcripts and or captions when listening
turn prediction activities into a game by putting my teenage students in groups before they listen and asking them to try to predict the answers to listening tasks where they have to pick out detailed information
What can teachers do to maximize students' level of engagement in having conversations in English
Activate students' interest in the topic
Create a reason for students to listen to classmates and be engaged in the conversation
Use fill in the blanks exercises
Make students' accountable for their conversation
What is the major challenge to integrating communicative tasks in your teaching?
